Animal visitation....

[GT98]

Originally posted by Dr Mordrid
Love Maine Coons. My dad had a giant male ("Black Jack" - 24 lbs; ~10 kg) when I was in high school, and he was definitely a ONE-person kitty.

Thats strange, Maine Coons are normally have a great temperment and they act lot like dogs also. I have a female Coon mix at my animal farm (AKA condo) and its the best cat I've ever met or owned.

[KvHagedorn]

Originally posted by xortam
We continue to have various cat sightings around the Bay Area and now this ... "Assemblyman Proposes Hunting Mountain Lions". Sounds like a dangerous strategy to me.

“We continue to see a growing population of these large cats which for the most part there is no known predator. They're just about the top of the food chain.”

Sounds like humans to me.. we gonna legalize culling those?

[Wombat]

Originally posted by xortam
We continue to have various cat sightings around the Bay Area and now this ... "Assemblyman Proposes Hunting Mountain Lions". Sounds like a dangerous strategy to me.

There's nothing wrong with hunting mountain lions. We have to do it here in Colorado. Their population is growing, and they're showing up in more populated areas. Not only is hunting them legal, but the population was still growing, and they're looking at raising the limit on how many you can kill in a year.

[xortam]

Bobcats and Mountain Lions are one thing but now this ...
"Suspected lion tracked near Reagan Library"

Parents were warned Friday not to leave their children unattended outdoors amid word a large exotic cat possibly an African lion was believed to be roaming an area near the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. ...

Originally posted by Wombat
There's nothing wrong with hunting mountain lions. We have to do it here in Colorado. ...

They're probably hunting in much less populated areas then what we have here in the Bay Area.

[Jessterw]

Get coyotes and foxes around my area quite often, but there's been a few cases of bobcats roaming the area. A year ago or so my in-laws lost one of their cats to one that had taken up temporary residence in a little patch of woods in their backyard.

Not the first time a bobcat has been there either. A few years prior one got in a tussle with our dog's mom. She faired rather well all things considered - a few scratches on her nose and a cut on the bottom of one of her front paws.

We have a decent deer population here that roams the parts of town with woods, so we tend to get a variety of predators too.

[Wombat]

Originally posted by xortam

They're probably hunting in much less populated areas then what we have here in the Bay Area.

Meh. Denver still has 1 million people in it, and it's the metro 'burbs that have the problem. The lions are free to roam in the less populated parts.

[xortam]

Originally posted by Wombat
Meh. Denver still has 1 million people in it, and it's the metro 'burbs that have the problem. ...

We’re getting these cats right in town. The Palo Alto story told of one sighted near Stanford University and the other is in downtown Palo Alto … not the ‘burbs.

[DGhost]

see, the problem in Colorado Springs is that the whole city might as well be suburbs, with the whole western side of it being either right at the base of or in hills/valleys/mountains. lions, bears, deer, cougars, etc etc are prone to wandering into the middle of the damn city. never heard of them down town, but i've seen them get pretty far into the "city".

****ing hate this city sometimes. they have the worst city planning ever.

[xortam]

They killed the cat that was roaming about the Reagan Library. Turns out it was a 600 pound tiger.

... The cat was shot several hundred yards from school soccer and baseball fields at the edge of a housing development, ...

[KvHagedorn]

She said trackers with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services had to shoot to kill because a tranquilizer would have taken several minutes to bring down the animal and the hunters or others could have been in danger.

:cough: BULLSHIT :cough:

[Wombat]

Originally posted by KvHagedorn
:cough: BULLSHIT :cough:

Nope, not bullshit. There's animals that you can trank, and ones that you can't. Large animals have to be very far away from anything if you're going to trank them. They have minutes, if not hours, to get pissed off that they're hit, and do something to someone about it.

[xortam]

There goes another kitty ... "MOUNTAIN LION KILLED IN SAN JOSE". Shame about that but also note what Fish and Game said about tranq'ing the cat.

[Jon P. Inghram]

So, the big question is... how do you cook mountain lion?

[xortam]

So, the big question is... how do you cook mountain lion?

Very slowly and with lots of curry ... or you could just plop on a bunch of catsup.

[KvHagedorn]

No injuries were reported.

Just one death..

Well, humans are potentially dangerous, too. We should all probably be shot on sight. Even if we are just sitting in a tree scared to death.

By the way, officer... BULLSHIT! You are either a chicken shit or lying because you want to kill something. You are the one that needs exterminating.